Impacts of snow and organic soils parameterization on northern Eurasian soil temperature profiles simulated by the ISBA land surface model

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 853-877

  Decharme, Bertrand ^a   Brun, Eric ^a,b   Boone, Aaron ^a   Delire, Christine ^a   Le Moigne, Patrick ^a   Morin, Samuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Ministry of Ecology   (France)

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EID: 84964940601     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-853-2016     Document Type: Article

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